A painting must be beautiful in itself, not because it represents something beautiful.

True progress measures success by both harvests and habitats.

I don't think you should ever have to apologize for your excitement.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

The world is a language we have forgotten how to speak.

The most personal is the most creative.

To create is to breathe life into silence.

We read to know we are not alone.

I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.